Mobile Homes and Persistent Places: An Introduction to Hunter-Gatherer Houses

The central role of architecture for structuring cultural patterns and behaviors is well documented for sedentary societies (e.g., Banning 1996; Blanton 1994; Coupland and Banning 1996; Kent 1993; Wilk and Ashmore 1988). In contrast, the relationship of hunter-gatherers to the built environment, particularly mobile hunter-gatherers, is not often discussed in anthropological or archaeological literature (although see Cuenca-Solana et al. 2018 and references therein; Maher and Conkey 2019; Milner et al. 2018; Whitelaw 1994; Zubrow et al. 2010). As discussed by Whitelaw (1994), research that does address hunter-gatherer houses traditionally focuses on functional aspects of these structures, including the use and